Vous utilisez Azure Devops pour vos projets et justement vous développez actuellement une application type client lourd pour vos postes utilisateurs ?

Vous avez constaté comme moi qu’Azure Devops ne dispose pas d’extension pour le déploiement automatisé dans SCCM?

Voila pourquoi je me suis lancé dans le développement d’une extension Azure Devops pour répondre à ce besoin!

L’extension est disponible sur le marketplace Visual Studio: SCCM Task for Azure DevOps Pipelines – Visual Studio Marketplace

Mais comment ça marche?

Il vous suffit une fois l’extension installée, de créer un service connection avec les infos de votre serveur SCCM.

Une fois fait, ajoutez et configurez la tâche SCCM Deploy dans votre multipipeline ou votre pipeline de release en utilisant ce service connection et le tour est joué!

La tâche ouvre un remote powershell pour vous à partir de l’agent vers le serveur SCCM puis execute les différentes commandes de publication dans SCCM.

Inutile donc de vous dire que si votre SCCM n’est pas accessible sur le web ce qui serait tout à fait normal, vous aurez besoin de votre propre agent azure devops.

C’est une première version de la tâche qui ne supporte pour l’instant que le déploiement des APPX, le déploiement des MSI sera rendu possible également par la suite avec des améliorations sur la configuration SCCM via la tâche.

Vous avez un soucis ou vous voulez contribuer ? le projet c’est par ici: ioxFR/azure-devops-sccm-task: Azure DevOps Pipeline Task to deploy package to SCCM (github.com)

A bientôt pour un prochain article!

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Hello everyone,

Today small post about installation of Sharepoint 2016 Preview. More post coming about that, testing, comparing…Of course this is an preview but we can discover some new features 🙂

To start here is my virtual machine configuration:

• Windows Server 2012 R2 with update x64
• SQL Server 2014 ent x64
• SharePoint 2016 Preview

You can download SharePoint 2016 Preview from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712

Edit: Sharepoint 2016 RC is available for now, so you can follow same procedure by downloading this new release. See post about « SharePoint 2016 RC is available »

Licence key: NQTMW-K63MQ-39G6H-B2CH9-FRDWJ

First configuration

Your  machine need to be installed with Windows Server 2012 R2 and you have to activate « Active directory domain services » feature via server manager -> Add role

After that, you have to create service accounts for Sharepoint, SQL and give needed authorizations to your accounts on SQL Databases (DB_owner, DB_securityadmin).

SharePoint 2016 Preview Installation

To start, we need to install prerequisites for SharePoint, of course you will need to restart your machine one of 2 times during this operation. So be patient 🙂

Click on « install software prerequisites »

Installation screen display all required software to be installed, no surprise for the moment,

Click on continue and be patient. during this process; server can restart one or two times.

When install finished, we got list of installed components.Just check if there is no error on any components.

As SharePoint 2013, launch SharePoint 20166 install

You know, you need to be patient for that 😉 take cup of coffee 🙂

When installation has been finish, you just have to open SharePoint wizard like previous version to create a farm.

As you can see on the picture below, something changed contrary to previous version. We cannot install SharePoint in Standalone mode. It mean, SharePoint install do not have embedded SQL installation anymore, so you have to complete installation of sql server edition before.

For the rest, it’s the same as previous version of SharePoint.Simple…

Ok now we are ready, we got all Sharepoint stuff. Let’s go to have look on SharePoint Central Administration

On SharePoint Centrale Administration, top bar changed and look like office 365 now but for the rest it look like the same.

I created team site, the design and feature look like the same.

For the moment installation process is finished and this is the end of blog post. i will write post more specifically for new features, new components integrated in SharePoint 2016 later.

Have nice discover of this new release and have nice SharePoiting 🙂

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Hello everybody,

Microsoft released SharePoint 2016 RC Build available for download.

I will prepare installation of this build to have final tour of this RC and what we will have for this new version.

You can find official announcement via office blog here: SharePoint 2016 RC Released

Enjoy and see you for next post,

Happy Sharepointing 🙂